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DU VC puts in papers on last day of tenure

DU VC puts in papers on last day of tenure

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New Delhi:10.03.2021 

As the tenure of Delhi University’s suspended vicechancellor Yogesh Tyagi ended on Tuesday, he wrote to the Visitor — the President of India, and other officials, stating he was “relinquishing” the charge as the vice-chancellor of the university.

“On completion of my tenure as the vice-chancellor of Delhi University, I, hereby, relinquish the charge,” he wrote.

In October 2020, the President of India had ordered a visitorial inquiry and suspended Tyagi over an allegation of dereliction of duty. With the inquiry report yet to be submitted, he superannuated in suspension. An official in the Union education ministry confirmed that the report hadn’t been submitted and the probe would continue.

Earlier last week, too, Tyagi had written to the Visitor seeking revocation of the suspension as his tenure was to end on March 9. Even the DU executive council nominee of the chancellor — the Vice-President of India, Raj Kumar Bhatia, had written to the inquiry committee and the President seeking the revocation. A senior university official said no response was received from either the Visitor or the ministry.

“For the first time in the history of the university, a vicechancellor is having such an unpleasant exit,” said a teacher.

Judge on flight fumes over mask violations

Judge on flight fumes over mask violations

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New Delhi:10.03.2021

A “stubborn reluctance” by passengers to wear masks properly on a flight he took has prompted a Delhi High Court judge to take suo motu notice of the “alar ming situation”.

Justice C Hari Shankar on Tuesday directed domestic airlines and DGCA to strictly comply with guidelines to enforce mask discipline among passengers and either offload the errant ones or put them in “no fly regimen” if they disobey rules mid air.

“Such a situation, in the present scenario, when the country is seeing a resurgence of Covid-19 cases, is completely unconscionable. Passengers in a flight are in a closed air-conditioned environment and even if one of the passengers suffers from Covid, the effect on other passengers could be cataclysmic. It is a matter of common knowledge that being within arm’s length distance of a Covid carrier, even if he is asymptomatic and is merely speaking, is more than sufficient to transmit the virus,” Justice Shankar noted, citing his experience on a Kolkata to New Delhi flight last week.

பட்டா மாறுதலுக்கு சிறப்பு ஏற்பாடு

பட்டா மாறுதலுக்கு சிறப்பு ஏற்பாடு

Added : மார் 05, 2021 23:57

சென்னை:தமிழகத்தில் சொத்து விற்பனை பத்திரப்பதிவுக்கு பின், பட்டா மாறுதலுக்கு மக்கள் அலைவதை தவிர்க்க, உட்பிரிவு தேவைப்படாத இனங்களுக்கு, கணினி வழியே பட்டா மாற்ற சிறப்பு திட்டம் அறிவிக்கப்பட்டது.

இத்திட்டம், செங்கல்பட்டு, காஞ்சிபுரம் உள்ளிட்ட, 10 மாவட்டங்களில் அமலில் உள்ளது. இதில், நடைமுறை குழப்பங்களை தீர்க்க, 'ஆன்லைன்' பத்திரப்பதிவு சாப்ட்வேரில், சில மாற்றங்கள் செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளன.இதன்படி, கணினி வழியே மாற்றம் செய்யதக்க சொத்து பதிவுகளை, தகுதி வாரியாக பிரித்து, சார் - பதிவாளர் ஒப்புதல் அளிக்க வழி வகை செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது. இதற்கான, வழிகாட்டி நடைமுறைகளும் வெளியிடப்பட்டுள்ளன.

HC orders notice on plea for more PG-NEET centres in TN

‘REPLY BY MARCH 8’

HC orders notice on plea for more PG-NEET centres in TN

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Chennai:06.03.2021 

An advocate has moved the Madras high court seeking direction to the central government to establish additional examination centres in Tamil Nadu for PG-NEET 2021.

Claiming that out of 255 centres established across the country only 28 are in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, Veerapillai Ramesh said even such centres are chosen by candidates of other states, forcing Tamil Nadu students to opt for centres in other states.

Admitting the plea, a division bench of Justice R Subbiah and Justice Sathi Kumar Sukumara Kurup directed the union government and the National Board of Examination to file their reply by March 8.

According to the petitioner, the choice of the city for NEET-PG will depend on the availability of the test centres in any particular city and that the allotment shall be done on a first-come-first-served basis.

“I have learned from various sources that within few hours from the opening of the portal enabling the candidates to apply, the system responds to the effect that all the test centres in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry has been taken and that the said centres do not find a place in the list of centres while applying online,” he said.

The notice inviting applications was itself published on February 23 and on the same day by 3.00 pm all the centres in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry are said to be filled, he added. This has put the candidates from Tamil Nadu in a very precarious situation, where they have to necessarily opt for centres outside Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, the petitioner said.

6 yrs after man falls to death from train, his family to get ₹8L

HC TO THE RESCUE

6 yrs after man falls to death from train, his family to get ₹8L

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Chennai:06.03.2021 

The Madras high court has made it clear that Southern Railway cannot deny compensation to passengers who die because they had to peep outside the doorway due to overcrowding in local trains.

All accidents that cause death due to impact on a lamp post cannot be construed as self-inflicted injury, Justice S M Subramaniam said while ordering Rs 8 lakh compensation with 6% interest to the family of a daily-wage worker who died in one such accident.

According to the petitioners, Parameswari and Samikannu, the deceased was a worker on a contract with a company in Chromepet and went to office by train. He had a monthly ticket.

On April 28, 2015, while travelling between Perungalathur and Tambaram during the peak hour, he fell down from a running train that was crowded and sustained severe head injuries. The victim died on the spot.

When the family applied for compensation, the railway tribunal rejected the claim on the ground that the death occurred as the man had hit a lamp post due to negligence and carelessness.

Aggrieved, the family have moved the present appeal before the court.

When the plea came up for hearing, the judge said, “Railways pleading negligence and carelessness on the part of passengers should establish an intention to cause selfinflicted injury. If the intention is established, then the exclusion clause may be invoked and not otherwise. Mens rea (criminal intent) is required for committing an act of self-inflicted injury or death.”

The court said that while standing near the door or while boarding a moving train, if an accident occurs, the same cannot be construed as self-inflicted injury, but the injury on account of carelessness. “Such injuries, which cannot be brought within the parameters of selfinflicted injury and compensation shall not be denied,” the court said.